Olsson promoted at J. Kings Food Service

FOOD SERVICES

J. Kings Food Service Professionals of Holtsville announced two promotions. Jim Olsson, former director of procurement, moved up to the role of vice president in charge of the company’s new bid management department. Taking Olsson’s place as director of procurement is longtime J. Kings employee Jim Feeney, who is charged with overseeing all purchases and logistics.

Saskia Thomson

MARKETING

The YMCA of Long Island named Saskia Monteiro Thomson marketing and communications director. Thomson was previously director of marketing for the Lake Success law firm Vishnick McGovern Milizio.

LAW

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek named Kimberly Malerba chair of the employment law practice group. Malerba, who joined the Uniondale law firm in 2003, will continue to serve as of counsel and as chair of the firm’s digital media practice group.

The Nassau County Bar Association in Mineola presented its 2013 Peter T. Affatato Court Employee of the Year Award to Philip Costa. For the past decade, Costa has served as a court clerk specialist in Nassau County Supreme Court and currently supervises the main clerk’s office in Supreme Court.

Sheila Silver

EDUCATION

Sheila Silver and Leonard Rastelli of Stony Brook University were named 2013 Guggenheim fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. They were chosen for displaying distinguished achievement in the past and promise for the future. Silver is director of undergraduate studies and a professor in the department of music, while Rastelli is an associate professor in the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics and the department of physics and astronomy at Stony Brook University.